This is an analysis of the poem To Lady Carteret that begins with:

FROM India's burning clime I'm brought,
With cooling gales like zephyrs fraught.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddeecc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 010010101 01011101 11011101 111100111 11110111 01011101 11111111 01011101 10110101 11010101 11011101 11111111 11111011 11011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 498
  • Average number of words per stanza: 103
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.

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